If NASA faked the moon landings, does the agency have any credibility at all? Was the Space Shuttle program also a hoax? Is the International Space Station another one? Do not dismiss these hypotheses offhand. Check out our wider NASA research and make up your own mind about it all.

I wasn't sure which of the NASA related threads to put this in so I figured I would just drop it in the Chatbox and the mods can move it as they see fit. I would like to direct your attention to the following image, which is part of NASA's blue marble series, from February 8, 2002.

Please note the following "cut and paste" jobs evident in the clouds. I tried to use different shapes/colors in pointing them out so it would be easy to reference. To see the details, I recommend downloading the image to your desktop and zooming in. I am sure there are more but I just highlighted the obvious ones.

Zoomed in screenshot from my desktop:

Of course, NASA would probably just say that it's a result of their composite imagery not being "100% accurate" ... but I think these things are worth pointing out and we should do more of this where we can. There are a lot of people out there that understand the moon landings are a fraud but haven't gotten any further in the research and still believe the rest of NASA's lies (Space shuttle, satellites, ISS, etc). If we can show reasonable, rational people undeniable and obvious examples of fakery such as this, perhaps we can get more people to start considering that the very ground they are standing on is a lie.

anonjedi2 wrote:Of course, NASA would probably just say that it's a result of their composite imagery not being "100% accurate" ... but I think these things are worth pointing out and we should do more of this where we can. There are a lot of people out there that understand the moon landings are a fraud but haven't gotten any further in the research and still believe the rest of NASA's lies (Space shuttle, satellites, ISS, etc). If we can show reasonable, rational people undeniable and obvious examples of fakery such as this, perhaps we can get more people to start considering that the very ground they are standing on is a lie.

What a spectacular find, dear Anonjedi - hats off to you. Let me highlight this great find of yours with an appropriate headline:

NASA'S BLUE MARBLE EARTH "PHOTOGRAPHS" PROVEN FRAUDS

I have spent a little time looking for more such obviously cloned "cloud cover" areas (my contributions are those marked with red arrows) :

Of course, if the "cloud cover" is fake - we must ask ourselves : what else is fake in this alleged picture of earth? And no, NASA cannot brush this away by saying that "their composite imagery isn't 100% accurate". As far as I know, these "blue marble earth depictions" are supposedly REAL photographs captured from NASA's space machines - as claimed by NASA. Please correct me if I am wrong about that. In any case, we now have incontrovertible / undebunkable proof that these are NOT real / authentic photographs of earth.

Nice work guys! Back in 2 double-0 7 Stephen Years over at FUTURISMIC Near-future science fiction and fact since 2001 posted that exact image:

Google Earth to Improve ResolutionDigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google Earth, will be launching a new satellite dubbed WorldView I next Tuesday, that will boost the accuracy of its satellite images to half-meter resolution. With that type of accuracy the satellite will now be able to pinpoint objects on the Earth at three to 7.5 meters, or 10 to 25 feet. Using known reference points on the ground, the accuracy could rise to about two meters. Additionally the satellite will be able to collect over 600,000 square kilometers of imagery each day, up from the current collection of that amount each week.

It seems that we are getting much closer to the CIC Earth application as envisioned by Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash, which was able to present real time satellite imagery.

Consider it done Steve-O. Let’s take a moment to pay homage to the late Verner E Suomi, ‘the father of satellite meteorology.’

Three-month-old Suomi NPP captures hi-res Earth pic – The RegisterSuomi, who was a meteorologist at the Univerity of Wisconsin, pioneered remote sensing of Earth from satellites in polar orbits a few hundred miles above the surface with Explorer 7 in 1959, and geostationary orbits of thousands of miles with ATS-1 in 1966.

He was also the inventor of the "spin-scan" camera, which allowed geostationary weather satellites to continuously capture snapshots, giving us the pictures commonly used on TV weather forecasts.

"It is fitting that such an important and innovative partnership pays tribute to a pioneer like Verner Suomi," said Mary Kicza, assistant administrator for NOAA's Satellite and Information Service.

Original Caption Released with Image: This color image of the Earth was obtained by Galileo at about 6:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.3 million miles from the planet during the first of two Earth flybys on its way to Jupiter. The color composite used images taken through the red, green and violet filters. South America is near the center of the picture, and the white, sunlit continent of Antarctica is below. Picturesque weather fronts are visible in the South Atlantic, lower right. This is the first frame of the Galileo Earth spin movie, a 500- frame time-lapse motion picture showing a 25-hour period of Earth's rotation and atmospheric dynamics.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)#mediaviewer/File:Galileo_Earth_-_PIA00114.jpg

Word on the street is, there's a revolutionary spaceship currently en route to one of Jupiter's moons (which GG discovered) in search of our evolutionary origins. Oh, the wonders of space motion picture magic!

Oh, if only we could be so lucky! Unfortunately, NASA claims that these blue marble images are composites. At least, that is what they claim for the 2012 images:

A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin.

As a matter of fact, one would be hard pressed to find very many images at all that are claimed to be actual non-composite images of the entire Earth from space. You'd think that one of their many thousands of satellites supposedly whizzing around the Earth could take a photo of it at some point in the last 30 years? I have several cameras they can borrow if they need to ...

So, unfortunately, NASA does not claim this image is a real photograph, but how could they? They MUST claim these are composites, that way when anomalies are found (such as the ones above), they can just write it off as inconsistencies in the software used to compile the images.

I think it's high time we attempt to collect images that NASA claims are actual (non-composite) photographs of the Earth from space. As far as I am aware, there was only ONE of these images available for many decades, allegedly taken from Apollo 17 (see below). I think that NASA may have what they claim to be more "actual, non-composite photoraphs" of the entire earth as seen from space, from the last 10-20 years, but I haven't done a full search yet.

In my opinion, this is the work of a very skilled painter, so I doubt we'll find cloned clouds or other duplicates in this image. Regardless, it's curious that NASA had only released ONE photo of the Earth from space for 40+ years, is it not?

A quarter century ago NASA’s Galileo Earth Spin Movie, for the first time, showed our ‘planet’ suspended in the ‘void of space’ and spinning along its ‘tilted axis.’ In response to the few deniers who claim clouds should morph over the course of 25 hours; NASA has outdone itself by producing an unprecedented 6 second time-lapse video of our wandering star!

Of all the planets NASA has explored, none have matched the dynamic complexity of our own. Earth is constantly changing, and NASA scientists and engineers are working daily to explore and understand the planet on scales from local to global.

-Globull Warm(onger)ing: Think globully, act loccoly!

Though Earth science has been a key part of NASA’s mission since the agency was founded in 1958, this year has been one of the peaks. Two new Earth-observing satellites have already been launched and put to work: the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2). Three more missions are set to take off in the next six months: the wind-measuring ISS-RapidScat, the ISS Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite. And research planes have been flying over polar ice, hurricanes, boreal forests, and pollution plumes.

-According to unnamed sources; Acronym Spawning Supervisors (ASS), well aware that feces occurs, are diligently trying to prevent an ISS-RapidScat malfunction which could result in a catastrophic collision of the Super High Imaging Telescope (SHIT) into the Fantasy Art Network (FAN).

All of these new efforts complement an existing fleet of Earth-observing satellites. In visible light and many invisible wavelengths, NASA and its science partners are observing the entire planet every day. The image above was captured on March 30, 2014, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite. The composite image of the eastern hemisphere was compiled from eight orbits of the satellite and ten imaging channels, then stitched together to blend the edges of each satellite pass.

The time-lapse video shows the VIIRS composite for the eastern hemisphere from January 18 to July 25, 2014. Subtle changes in the snow and vegetation cover of the land vie for attention with a dynamic, swirling layer of clouds that are constantly present and constantly moving.

-I believe NASA will eventually produce a cross-calibrated composite time-lapse video showing a spinning Earth and constantly morphing clouds concurrently! Baby steps...You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

“After having the privilege of flying shuttle missions and seeing Earth from the vantage point of space, I’ll never forget observing our fragile planet from above with no visible political borders, only those established by the oceans and mountains and other geography,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden wrote earlier this year. “It’s a reminder that our planet belongs to everyone, and we each have a responsibility to help protect it. For NASA, that means making Earth science a priority investment. It’s one of the cornerstones of our work.”

Seeing as NASA & Hollywood go together like crisis actors & presstitutes, I would be remiss to leave out Universal Pictures from “The Earth seen from space’ thread.

The Story Behind… The Universal Pictures logoIn 1912 a contract was signed with other studios (Powers Picture Company, Champion Films and American Éclai) and this resulted in the founding of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company in 1914 with [Carl] Laemmle as its president. Through the years the company has had various logos:

1914-1919The first logo that was used already showed a globe which has a lot of resemblance to Saturn with its ring.

-Make of that what you will.

1920-1922The ring is now slightly tilted and various fonts are used.

-Similar to the ‘axial tilt’ of our ‘planet.’

1923-1926This is the first one where the planet looks like earth. This one shows a plane flying around the world leaving a trail of smoke which slowly turn into the words “Universal Pictures”.

-It actually looks like a ball of clay floating in a cloud but OK. You’ve got to love the plane leaving a trail of smoke bit.

1927-1936An updated version of the previous logo which also has the plane flying around the globe. The text now reads “A Universal Picture”.

-The Antarctic Peninsula strangely went missing for a decade.

1936-1946Now this is my personal favorite as it shows the globe made from plexiglass with the words A Universal Picture circling around it surrounded by sparkling stars. It was built by Alexander Golitzen and photographed by John Fulton.

-The ‘sparkling stars’ bursting out of a globe were an emblematic figuration of the ‘Big Bang Theology’ (the creation story of popular science) and a form of psychological conditioning for the ‘Atomic Age’ that was to come.

1946-1963As the company merged with International Pictures Company a new logo was commissioned [Sic]. This version simply showed a rotating globe with the words “Universal International” shown on top of it.

-With the math-a-magics of the ‘vanishingly small’ (Atomic Theology, ‘nuclear’ weapons) having been firmly ‘established,’ Universal wasted no time in laying the foundation for the ‘world of the unimaginably large’ – the ‘Cold Sold War’ for ‘global domination’ and all the revolutions it gave rise to.

-The 'camera' zoomed through just in time for the escalation of the ‘space’ race.

1990-1997This one starts on the side of the earth with a short reflection of the sun on the water after which the Universal letters come around as the camera slowly zooms out to show the earth and the stars behind it. It’s interesting to note that this wasn’t done with CGI, but was all model work.

-Interesting indeed! I miss the good old days when NASA’s top psy-art specialists took pride in handcrafting museum quality paintings and sculptures.

1997-2012

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNkgRv_8XE

The first CGI version of the logo where light emerges from the globe, slowly revealing the continents. The name Universal appears in gold and white lettering.

-“The phrase [Thousand Points of Light] was previously found in C.S. Lewis's 1955 novel The Magician's Nephew, in which Lewis wrote: "One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out." In 1917 H.G. Wells three times states in Mr. Britling Sees It Through variations of: "But never was the black fabric of war so threadbare. At a thousand points, the light is shining through."” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_points_of_light)

Hark, all ye disbelievers! At last! A satellite image of our earth! NASA responded in a timely fashion to our complaints! Shot by the "Deep Space Climate Obervatory" satellite on July 6th! Be thankful for all their efforts to monitor climate data, for that's not just the only chance for stopping global warming, no, it also brings you all the delights of viewing our earth from space.

But wait...they say it's another composite assembled from three distinct pictures? How long will we have to wait for the real deal?

So why is the “Blue Marble” a bigger deal than these? Turns out, it’s quite tricky to take a good photo of the entire Earth.

The first challenge is that our planet is big. The only way to view all of it at once is to get much farther away from the Earth than we do for many of our activities in outer space. The International Space Station, for instance, orbits at a height of just 400 kilometers, or about 249 miles away from Earth.

Oh? What about all of the satellites orbiting at higher distances than the ISS? High Earth orbit satellites are said to be orbiting above the Earth at greater than 35 thousand kilometers. Some of those are geostationary, so movement shouldn't be a problem at all, no? They can't take a photograph of the Earth that's not a composite?

The second problem is a familiar one that plagues many photographers who are Earthbound: lighting. In order to view the Earth as a fully illuminated globe, a person (or camera) must be situated in front of it, with the sun directly at his or her back. Not surprisingly, it can be difficult to arrange this specific lighting scheme for a camera-set up that’s orbiting in space at speeds approaching thousands of miles per hour.

But no problem for satellites taking photographs of Pluto and all of the other planets that we receive pristine images of, right?

As a result of these challenges, NASA, NOAA, and other science agencies most often rely on composite images to depict our planet. These images stitch together multiple high-resolution snapshots taken by satellites already in orbit to produce one seamless portrait of the Earth. And that’s what the three photos above are: composite images produced by NASA over the past fifteen years (released respectively in 2002, 2007, and 2012).

So these photographs weren't even taken at the same time? They are spaced out 5 years apart and then all of the lighting and colors just happen to line up perfectly when stitched together to create this glorious work of art? What are the odds? How difficult would that be to accomplish in a normal environment? Wouldn't it be MUCH easier to just take a single photo from a geo-stationary or other higher altitude satellite?

Composite imaging is an extremely useful tool for helping people understand the Earth — they allow researchers to capture certain features at higher resolution; reduce the obscuring effect of cloud coverage in certain areas; and overlay various data layers to help identify patterns and trends.

rusty wrote:Hark, all ye disbelievers! At last! A satellite image of our earth! NASA responded in a timely fashion to our complaints! Shot by the "Deep Space Climate Obervatory" satellite on July 6th! Be thankful for all their efforts to monitor climate data, for that's not just the only chance for stopping global warming, no, it also brings you all the delights of viewing our earth from space.

But wait...they say it's another composite assembled from three distinct pictures? How long will we have to wait for the real deal?

No worries, we will receive many more (sex(y)) "pictures" from DSCOVR (wiki)...

It was originally developed as a NASA satellite proposed in 1998 by then-Vice President Al Gore for the purpose of Earth observation. It is at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrangian point, 1,500,000 km (930,000 mi) from Earth, to monitor variable solar wind condition, provide early warning of approaching coronal mass ejections and observe phenomena on Earth including changes in ozone, aerosols, dust and volcanic ash, cloud height, vegetation cover and climate. At this location it will have a continuous view of the Sun and the sunlit side of the Earth. The satellite is orbiting the Sun-Earth L1 point in a six-month period, with a spacecraft-Earth-Sun angle varying from 4 to 15 degrees. It will take full-Earth pictures about every two hours and be able to process them faster than other Earth observation satellites.

This is another "image of the Earth" from DSCOVR...

I do not recognise any continent of Earth in that strange brown unclouded area? Is this Middle Earth? Or Tatooine? Or what is this "planet" supposed to be? This "photo" was "taken" on the very 11th of February (launch date) this year at unknown altitude above the Earth...

yeah, they want to pass it off as the Sahara, the only non-clouded area of this view on Earth on Feb 11 2015.

Selene

PS: If there's photos every two hours, always a view on the sunlit side of Earth, because of the 'stable' 'orbit' around the Lagrangian 'Point' 1 and the same day of launch "we had" already such a "nice" picture" of "Earth", where are the other 160 days * 12 photos per day = 1920 photos???

I have an update scanner for this website, I haven't checked it out yet.

Daily Views of Earth Available on New NASA Website

Oct 19, 2015

An image of rotating earth.NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of the Earth every day. The images are taken by a NASA camera one million miles away on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force.

Once a day NASA will post at least a dozen new color images of Earth acquired from 12 to 36 hours earlier by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). Each daily sequence of images will show the Earth as it rotates, thus revealing the whole globe over the course of a day. The new website also features an archive of EPIC images searchable by date and continent.

The primary objective of NOAA’s DSCOVR mission is to maintain the nation’s real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA. NASA has two Earth-observing instruments on the spacecraft. EPIC's images of Earth allow scientists to study daily variations over the entire globe in such features as vegetation, ozone, aerosols, and cloud height and reflectivity.

EPIC is a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope. The color Earth images are created by combining three separate single-color images to create a photographic-quality imageequivalent to a 12-megapixel camera. The camera takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used to create the color images. Each image is about 3 megabytes in size.

"The effective resolution of the DSCOVR EPIC camera is somewhere between 6.2 and 9.4 miles (10 and 15 kilometers)," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

Since Earth is extremely bright in the darkness of space, EPIC has to take very short exposure images (20-100 milliseconds). The much fainter stars are not visible in the background as a result of the short exposure times.

The DSCOVR spacecraft orbits around the L1 Lagrange point directly between Earth and the sun. This orbit keeps the spacecraft near the L1 point and requires only occasional small maneuvers, but its orbit can vary from 4 to 15 degrees away from the sun-Earth line over several years.

EPIC was built by Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center, in Palo Alto, California. Using an 11.8-inch (30-centimeter) telescope and 2048 x 2048 CCD detector, EPIC measures in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared areas of the spectrum. The data from all 10 wavelengths are posted through a website hosted by the Atmospheric Science Data Center at NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. All images are in the public domain.

NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives, and safeguard our future. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long-term data records. The agency freely shares this unique knowledge and works with institutions around the world to gain new insights into how our planet is changing.